Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
Ver. 10. And not to destruction] Unless by accident; or, if to the destruction of the flesh, it is that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus, 1 Corinthians 5:5. See Trapp on " 1Co 5:5 " See Trapp on " 2Co 10:8 "